Re: Async I/O on HP

From: Alex Hudghton <alex_at_alenda.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:36:35 +0100
Message-ID: <7obeu7$bae$1@taliesin.netcom.net.uk>

Tim_Cuthbertson_at_sonat.com wrote in message <7o9sf1$m5h$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>In article <37A85B86.EC93AFCC_at_navisent.com>,
> William Dangren <wdangren_at_navisent.com> wrote:
>> We are having a problem with Async I/O on HP-UX 10.20. If we have
>them
>> turned on in the init file we get errors once in a while saying it
>can't
>> find the Async device file. If we turn Async off in the init file the
>> instance crashes. Thanks for any advice in advance.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> --
>> William Dangren
>> Navis Enterprises
>> 407.348.6401
>> 800.219.0207
>>
>>
>
>
>You will have to get your HP-UX administrator to run the following
>command as root:
> /sbin/mknod /dev/async c 101 0x0
>
>Then, he (or she) will have to grant privileges on this "device" to the
>oracle software owner (usually, oracle):
> chown oracle /dev/async
> chgrp dba /dev/async
> chmod 660 /dev/async
>
>Tim

Strange how these problems manifest themselves in differant ways. We had the same errors on HP-UX 10.20 with Oracle 7.3.4 but the errors were so frequent the alert log consisted of nothing else and filled up very rapidly, until we did as Tim suggested above. (as opposed to your once in a while)

Alex Received on Thu Aug 05 1999 - 02:36:35 CDT